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Films for When You Hurt Someone Without Meaning To

The Moviepiq team selected these films specifically for when the one you hurt without meaning to. Chosen because they understand the specific weight of this moment.

Films for when you hurt someone and didn't mean to, and the not-meaning-to doesn't change the shape of what happened for them.

You need to be somewhere else for a while. That is the full situation. Somewhere that doesn't require your presence, that asks nothing, that gives you the low warmth of another world to be in without the tax of your own. The dissociation is not a problem to be solved. It is a reasonable response to something unreasonable, and you are allowed to manage it this way for now. These films are built for exactly this. They will be there and so will you and nothing more will be required of either of you.

The Punisher: One Last Kill movie poster
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2026 · 51min · ★★★☆☆ 6.4/10

As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.

It asks nothing of you. The world of this film is complete and self-contained and you can be in it without bringing anything from your actual life.

No presence required

Mirage movie poster
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2018 · 129min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

Warm without being demanding. It gives you somewhere else to be for a couple of hours without requiring your presence.

Soft enough to float through

The Second Mother movie poster
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2015 · 112min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s unive

The kind of film that works when you need to not be in your own head. Low-friction, full world, no performance required.

Lets you be elsewhere

Top Gun: Maverick movie poster
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2022 · 131min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has

You can float through this one. It will hold you without asking you to hold it back.

Low-friction

No analysis required. You do not have to show up fully for any of these.

Your Name. movie poster
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2016 · 106min · ★★★☆☆ 7.3/10

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

It asks nothing of you. The world of this film is complete and self-contained and you can be in it without bringing anything from your actual life.

No presence required

War Room movie poster
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2015 · 120min · ★★★☆☆ 6.4/10

The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all - great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. But appearances can be deceiving. In reali

Warm without being demanding. It gives you somewhere else to be for a couple of hours without requiring your presence.

Soft enough to float through

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time movie poster
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2021 · 155min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However,

The kind of film that works when you need to not be in your own head. Low-friction, full world, no performance required.

Lets you be elsewhere

Gabriel's Inferno movie poster
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2020 · 122min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness and love.

You can float through this one. It will hold you without asking you to hold it back.

Low-friction

The Father movie poster
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2020 · 97min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

It asks nothing of you. The world of this film is complete and self-contained and you can be in it without bringing anything from your actual life.

No presence required

Oppenheimer movie poster
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2023 · 181min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Warm without being demanding. It gives you somewhere else to be for a couple of hours without requiring your presence.

Soft enough to float through

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet movie poster
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2020 · 83min · ★★★★☆ 7.7/10

The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In more than 90 years, Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder.

The kind of film that works when you need to not be in your own head. Low-friction, full world, no performance required.

Lets you be elsewhere

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas movie poster
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2018 · 108min · ★★★★☆ 7.5/10

After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

You can float through this one. It will hold you without asking you to hold it back.

Low-friction

Somewhere else. That's all you needed. Here it is.

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